Word: rates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...back bench, Knowland waited respectfully until Taft had finished. Then he rose and very firmly pointed out that at the rate of $1 billion a year it would take 259 years to wipe out the debt.* He thought the Senators ought to do it faster than that. He was calm: before the session, he had taken the precaution of lining up maverick Republicans on his side. He also knew Democrats would be with him, if only to embarrass Taft. A trifle grimly, Colorado's Eugene Millikin suggested a $2 billion tax payment as a compromise. Taft retreated...
...class of 1781 and the greatest American architect of the times, but utility and the budget limited him through most of the job. In the chapel he had a free hand and the result was one of his finest creations, according to the word of contemporary experts. At any rate, it was the chief meeting place of the college, and was always much in use during big celebrations such as Class Day and Exhibition Day. Dignitaries from the outside world, including La Fayette, James Monroe, and Andrew Jackson, frequently were received in the chapel. When Jackson came, there was much...
...Little. For the Pennsy's woes, President Martin Withington Clement had a two-word explanation: "Government regulation." When rail workers were awarded an 18½? wage increase in mid-1946, it was made retroactive to Jan. 1. But ICC delayed giving the railroads a 17.6% rate increase until last December. Furthermore, said Clement, additional boosts are necessary...
...Goldstein, and the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick. All three agree that 1) the true strength of a nation rests on the family; 2) the off-again-on-again marriages of Hollywood stars set a bad national fashion-and are at least partly responsible for the soaring U.S. divorce rate; 3) Hollywood marriage, therefore, is not a private affair but a matter of public concern. Dr. Goldstein sums up: "The social responsibility that rests upon each one of us demands that our private life be equal in moral tone and inspiration to our public performance...
Wylie thinks he has the answer for juvenile delinquency, the high divorce rate, national psychoses such as Naziism and "iron curtains." He presents his answers, as usual, in ups & downs of personal sharpness and pseudo-scientific bombast, glib epigrams and gassy notions, often pungent and more often appallingly slipshod prose. At his best, Iconoclast Wylie pinpricks as sharply as H. L. Mencken ; at his worst, he is as full of unenlightening heat as Westbrook Pegler...